l^ougamviiiea speciosa ; auu uicsc, 
Niel, with PassiEoras and Bignonia, also go partly 
over the girders. The permanent subjects below are 
large Palms, Camellias, and Orange trees, in boxes 
or tubs, and the spaces between these are filled up 
with i0pvy(^ring plants as they come .on ip their season, 
Numfeer^'of plants also are grown and used foi 
embellishing the hall, staircase, apd^ rooms of th^ 
man^on, ^d the houses for cultivating these in ar^ 
at the kitcll^n garden, where small semi-span struc- 
tures 'are filled with a lot of young useful stuff that will 
, afford a quan^ of flowers during the winter. The 
principal thing^grown for this season are Eucharis 
amazonica, EuXorbia/' jacquimse flora, Poinsettias, 
Browallias, Sericocraphis Ghiesbreghtii, Gesneras of 
sorts, ^nd Iletero^ntron roseum. The stove is a 
span-rpofed houses s^ut tjo feet long and 15 feet wide, 
and h4^ a bed ift the^iddle, in which, at equal dis- 
tancespthree ^lants of^usa Cavendishii are grown ; 
and these/ besides yie^ing huge clusters of fruit, 
■ are valuable on accountV their bold foliage, which 
gives character and is al^^ys handsome to look on. 
The shelves and stages oX the north side are filled 
with Ferns, among them beir^ numbers of Adiantum 
for cutting from, and, as they get plenty of light, the 
* fronds are hard, and therefore last well in water. On 
^ the sunny side of the house Dracaenas, Crotons, and 
